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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Mere Stones

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Etymology

, 1857 O.S. , probably ' boundary stones ' , v. (ge)mǣre , stān , but it is not known now what boundary is involved ; it may have been that of some old estate ( cf. Hoarstones supra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name